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      383 months ago

      The USA would still be a native american land if millions of people had not been wiped out by Europeans

      • @[email protected]
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        213 months ago

        The Native Americans would have been much better off if they had simply strangled Columbus and all his crew the moment they made landfall…

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          103 months ago

          I get the humor in what you say, but it’s worth noting that the Native American civilizations were collapsing due to disease brought by earlier European visitors by the time Columbus set sail.

          Granted, history probably would’ve been largely the same if Columbus’ expeditions were unsuccessful, given the English, French, Dutch and Spanish appetites for empire building

          • bufalo1973
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            53 months ago

            There’s a saga that is about “what if Columbus arrived to America but never got back to Europe?”. It’s “the tale of the feathered serpent”.

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              43 months ago

              That sounds super neat. When I google it I find these books amongst other more confused seeming results. Is that the right ones or is it something else?

              • slingstone
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                23 months ago

                Yeah, I found the same books, and they don’t seem like the right one.

                • bufalo1973
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                  23 months ago

                  It’s “chronicles”, not “tales”, sorry. By Edgardo Civallero.